Gardener Ref Jf1610

Full Time experienced Estate Gardener required for private country estate located approx 5 miles from Camberley, Surrey.

The house has beautiful, established gardens and we are looking for someone to join the small team, all enthusiastic gardeners with a real passion for horticulture.

The position is Monday to Friday, 8am to 4.30pm with occasional weekend work required. There is no accommodation available on the estate.

The successful person will have previously worked within an Estate garden and be a good team player who can follow instructions. A reliable, polite and well presented person who is easy to get along with and has a good work ethic.

The Position:

- Use of large garden machinery - ride on mowers, strimmers, hedge cutters etc
- Maintaining large areas of formal lawns to a high standard
- General gardening - weeding, pruning, mulching, digging over beds, cutting back, watering, replanting etc
- Topiary and general hedge cutting
- Maintaining the rose garden and cutting garden
- Tractor and implement use
- Spraying
- Tree maintenance
- Water features, lakes etc
- Vegetable growing

The Person:

- Reliable, trustworthy and a good team player
- Experienced with all garden machinery
- Will have excellent horticultural knowledge
- Happy to work in all weathers and follow instructions
- Will be a car driver with own transport
- Will be fit and healthy as the job can be physically demanding at times.
- Will have tractor experience ideally.
- Will be able to provide fully checkable references

A competitive salary will be offered to the successful person.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekend availability

**Education**:

- Certificate of Higher Education (preferred)

**Experience**:

- Gardening: 5 years (required)
- large garden machinery use: 5 years (required)
- good horticultural: 5 years (required)
- hedge cutting/topiary: 5 years (required)
- tractor and implement use: 5 years (preferred)

**Language**:

- English (required)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: JF1610